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#1

“Eppur si muove.”
― Galileo Galilei

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#2

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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#3

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
― niels bohr

tags: reality

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#4

“Anger begets more anger.”
― Mahavira

tags: ethics, morality

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#5

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: doomed-to-repeat-it, history, learning, school

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#6

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

tags: community, death, isolation, mankind

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#7

“Society is but a construct”
― Nathan deOliveira

tags: society

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#8

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
― Benjamin Brewster

tags: 1882, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, misattributed-to-yogi-berra, quote-investigator, theory

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#9

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#10

“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better if for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.”
― Eugene Wigner

tags: inspirational, mathematics, physics

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#11

“There are four laws. The third of them, the second law, was recognized first; the first, the zeroth law, was formulated last; the first law was second; the third law might not even be a law in the same sense as the others." P.W. Atkins on the laws of thermodynamics.”
― P.W. Atkins

tags: laws-of-nature, physics, thermodynamics

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#12

“Valei-me Nossa Senhora,
Santo Antonio de Nazare,
A vaca mansa da leite,
A braba da si quise!”
― Mário de Andrade, Macunaima

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#13

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

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#14

“Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.”
― Henry Ford

tags: inpirational

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#15

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-to-mark-twain, quote-investigator

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#16

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

tags: paradigm-shift, science, scientists

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#17

“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

tags: courage, direction, enlightenment, philosophy, reason, slave, truth, tutelage, understanding

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#18

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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